WotD: thongs; flip flops

[muckefuck]

1. die Badelatschen, die Flip-flops
2. de teenslippers
3. las chancletas
4. les xancletes
5. les tongs
6. y fflip-fflops
8. japonki
9. 고무 슬리퍼
10. 人字拖 rénzìtuō

Notes: It's strange for me to read online that "thongs" is considered a specifically Australian usage, since that is all my family called them when I was growing up. (References to thong underwear baffled me well into my early twenties.)

Comments

[paulintoronto.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Ontario, Canada calling them thongs as well. Flip flops is a relatively new term, I think.

By the way, in New Zealand, they are called "jandals".

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I came across that as a translation of the Korean term (which literally translates as "rubber sandal". But if they're actual Japanese sandals, they're more likely to be called 조리 jori (from zōri "grass footwear", the native Japanese name).